Category: On Writing

I admit it. I am NOSY. I love hearing how other writers write, what their process is like. Some people plot, some are pantsers. Some set a word count everyday while others set a time limit. Since I don’t think I’m the only one who likes a peek behind the …

Are you deep in the revision trenches? Try this. Copy and paste a paragraph of your work into the free on-line program called EditMinion. It will take 10 seconds. Now look at the top line of the Minion analysis: Adverbs. If you have a 0 do a happy dance. If …

The Middle Grade Mafia is pleased to welcome back frequent contributor and friend, Janice Hardy. Her posts always provide amazing writing tips and today she is here with another must read! Why We Tell, Instead of Show, in Our Writing By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy I think one of the bigger …

Not all revisions are created equal. Some manuscripts are clean first drafts that fell out of your head onto the page like they wanted to be written. Other stories fight you every step of the way and you have to whip them into submission to make the novel work. Still …

Guest Post Contributor: Author, M. Tara Crowl Everyone knows what a genie is, right? The basics, anyway: magical being, oil lamp, three wishes. But when I started writing a middle grade novel about a twelve-year-old genie who wants to be a regular girl, I realized very quickly that there were …